password

[James Weatherall]

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:21, Kishore Sambasivan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use VNC3.3.4.   I noticed that VNC is accepting incorrect passwords as
> long as the password entered contains the actual password as a prefix.   Has
> anyone encountered this problem or has it been reported already?  

The standard VNC authentication method considers only the first eight
characters of the supplied password.  This is a documented limitation of
current VNC releases, required for compatibility with some legacy
systems.

Cheers,

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